MTG - Is It Worth It To Buy A 2019 Challenger Deck? A Magic: The Gathering Product Review

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[TolarianCommunityCollege]

Obviously, grade at the end of the video got flipped. Golgari is the worst of the four and the only deck that is **NOT** an A-

[fannydelgadillo]

11:47 professor??? I have a complaint about my grade...
-mono white Challenger deck

[mikehunt]

that's cool that they included the war of the spark version of ajani's pridemate

[KevinOMalleyisonlysmallreally]

Brian, you just saved me a conk of money. As a grad student desperately trying to hold on to my hobby, that means a lot.

[NCISfreak]

Right on with those codes prof. It’s about time Wizards sees the value in that!!

[pinballwitch]

thank you for continuing to push wizards to put arena codes in products. As a very limited budget player who does both paper and digital magic, those codes go a long way towards helping people like me to have more fun and better value at the game as a whole. I hope they start to listen soon, because while I do like planeswalker decks, I know they're not for everyone, and more product should come with codes.

[Reruro]

Just bought the Izzet deck and played my first FNM standard event ever! Had a total blast! Thanks Professor for encouraging me to give it a go!

[sgtchuckle]

THANK YOU about the Arena code thing. When I saw RNA Planeswalker decks had arena codes I got excited just because I'd be able to pick one of this year's challengers online.

[jdrury]

I will be picking up an arcane tempo deck from my LGS soon! great video! and you are so right about arena codes. The hardest part about really getting into arena is getting a good deck, and this helps jumpstart new players, and gives remaining players a new way to play on the game, and practice their deck for FNM

[leesadleridge]

Picked up United Assault last night, awesome deck! Got it sleeved up in my deck box this morning, gonna be a good weekend 😊 Thanks for the exquisite review professor 👍

[aarona]

Honestly can't imagine not having you as a content creator Professor - your contributions to the community are always appreciated

[eliwaters]

The Professor's comments are always so useful and the suggestions to improve the product in its design, such as chucking in more rares and adding arena codes are both positive for the mtg community and wizards themselves. Prof needs to infiltrate their design team.

[vincentheslin]

A thorough & fantastic delve into these decks.you took the time to review playability and value. Exactly the review we need. Keep on keeping on, prof.

[wylee]

This is perfect timing,
I'm new to Magic and i saw these in the store but wasn't sure what they were. Now i know, thank you

[jonahwoo]

“I built all four of them in Magic Arena and paper leading up to the release” sums up magic community in a nutshell :)

[lastup]

Thank you for these reviews. As a brand new mtg player I would usually just buy random products and hope for the best.

[murpesx]

Thanks for another great review. I'm getting back into standard after a bit of an absence, and was looking for an affordable path to return to FNM. These decks were on Massdrop last week and I ordered them; I'm even more excited for them to arrive after watching this video!

[thecrazycapn]

Thanks for putting so much effort into test play, prof.

[DavidFast]

Picked up Arcane Tempo today from the LGS for msrp too thankfully. Looking forward to playing it tonight!

[Omonk]

Thanks for the great review! I purchased the Lightning Aggro and attended my very first FNM Standard event last night. It's a fun deck to play with while I got the feel for my LGS meta and the Standard format. Amazing I came first and won myself an Augur of Bolas promo card! Which I'll be using in my Pauper U/B deck. Thanks again for all your MTG contents!